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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. jBASE

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Well established RDBMS

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.67
Rank	#77	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.softwareag.com/en_corporate/platform/adabas-natural.html

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Software AG

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

1971

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1991

Current release

11.2, May 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

optional

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

gRPC (https)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Ingres Replicator

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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